Project description:The tumor microenvironment strongly influences cancer development, progression and metastasis. The role of carcinoma-associated fibroblasts (CAFs) in these processes and their clinical impact has not been studied systematically in non-small cell lung carcinoma (NSCLC). We established primary cultures of CAFs and matched normal fibroblasts (NFs) from 15 resected NSCLC. We demonstrate that CAFs have greater ability than NFs to enhance the tumorigenicity of lung cancer cell lines. Microarray gene expression analysis of the 15 matched CAF and NF cell lines identified 46 differentially expressed genes, encoding for proteins that are significantly enriched for extracellular proteins regulated by the TGF-beta signaling pathway. We have identified a subset of 11 genes that formed a prognostic gene expression signature, which was validated in multiple independent NSCLC microarray datasets. Functional annotation using protein-protein interaction analyses of these and published cancer stroma-associated gene expression changes revealed prominent involvement of the focal adhesion and MAPK signalling pathways. Fourteen (30%) of the 46 genes also were differentially expressed in laser-capture micro-dissected corresponding primary tumor stroma compared to the matched normal lung. Six of these 14 genes could be induced by TGF-beta1 in NF. The results establish the prognostic impact of CAF-associated gene expression changes in NSCLC patients. This SuperSeries is composed of the following subset Series: GSE22862: Prognostic Gene Expression Signature of Carcinoma Associated Fibroblasts in Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer [expression profiling_CAFs] GSE22863: Prognostic Gene Expression Signature of Carcinoma Associated Fibroblasts in Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer [expression profiling_NSCLC stroma] GSE27284: Prognostic Gene Expression Signature of Carcinoma Associated Fibroblasts in Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer [methylation profiling] GSE27289: Prognostic Gene Expression Signature of Carcinoma Associated Fibroblasts in Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer [genome variation profiling]

Project description:Purpose Prospectively identifying who will benefit from adjuvant chemotherapy (ACT) would improve clinical decisions for individual non-small-cell lung cancer (NSCLC) patients. Most current molecular signatures for lung cancer are prognostic only and provide limited information with regard to the functional importance of the genes selected. In this study, we aim to develop and validate a functional gene set that predicts the clinical benefit of ACT in NSCLC. Experimental Design An 18-hub-gene prognosis signature was developed through a systems biology approach using a large NSCLC dataset from the Director’s Challenge Consortium. The prognostic value of this signature was tested in NSCLC patients from UT Lung SPORE cohort and additional five public datasets. The 18-hub-gene set was then integrated with genome-wide functional (RNAi) data and genetic aberration data to derive a 12-gene predictive signature for ACT benefit in NSCLC. Results We showed that the 18-hub-gene set can robustly predict the prognosis of patients with adenocarcinoma in all validation datasets across four microarray platforms. The refined 12-gene functional set was successfully validated in two independent datasets. The predicted benefit group showed significant improvement in survival after ACT (JBR.10 clinical trial data: hazard ratio=0.36, p=0.038; UT Lung SPORE data: hazard ratio=0.34, p=0.017), while the predicted non-benefit group showed no survival improvement. Conclusions This is the first study to integrate genetic aberration, genome-wide RNAi functional data, and mRNA expression data to identify a functional gene set that is predictive for ACT benefits. This 12-gene predictive signature has been validated in two independent NSCLC cohorts. Patients were eligible to enter the study if they underwent curative resection for NSCLC at MD Anderson Cancer Center between December 1996 and June 2007, and patients with radiation therapy were excluded from the study. All tissue samples were obtained by surgical resection from patients who had provided written informed consent. Tissues were stored at −140°C after being snap frozen in liquid nitrogen. Serial sectioning of each sample was used to histologically evaluate tumor and malignant cells content before RNA extraction. The primary tumor tissues from 176 patients were selected randomly from similar samples in the UT Lung SPORE tumor collection based on stringent, predefined quality control procedures before any data analysis, including the presence of ≥70% tumor tissue and ≥50% malignant cells in the frozen tissue used for RNA extraction. In this cohort, 133 patients are adenocarcinomas (ADCs) and 43 patients are squamous cell carcinomas (SCCs); 49 patients received ACT (mainly Carboplatin plus Taxanes) and 127 patients did not receive ACT.

Project description:Introduction: Effective predictive biomarkers for selection of patients benefiting from adjuvant platinum-based chemotherapy in non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) are needed. Based on a previously validated methodology, molecular profiles of predicted sensitivity in two patient cohorts are presented. Methods: The profiles are correlations between in vitro sensitivity to cisplatin and vinorelbine and baseline mRNA expression of the 60 cell lines in the National Cancer Institute panel. An applied clinical samples filter focused the profiles to clinically relevant genes. The profiles were tested on 1) snap-frozen tumors from 133 patients with completely resected stage 1B-2 NSCLC randomized to adjuvant cisplatin and vinorelbine (ACV, n=71) or no adjuvant treatment (OBS, n=62) [GSE14814] and 2) formalin-fixed paraffin-embedded (FFPE) pre-treatment tumors from 95 patients with completely resected stage 1A-3B NSCLC receiving adjuvant cisplatin and vinorelbine. Results: The combined cisplatin and vinorelbine profiles showed: 1) univariate Hazard Ratio (HR) for sensitive versus resistant of 0.265 (95% CI:0.079-0.889, p=0.032) in the ACV cohort and a HR of 0.28 in a multivariate model (95% CI:0.08-1.04, p=0.0573); 2) significant prediction at 3 year survival from surgery in univariate (HR=0.138 (95% CI:0.035-0.537), p=0.004) and multivariate analysis (HR=0.14 (95% CI:0.030-0.6), p=0.0081). No discrimination was found in the OBS cohort (HR=1.328, p=0.60). The cisplatin predictor alone had similar figures with 1) univariate HR of 0.37 (95% CI:0.12-1.15, p=0.09) in the ACV cohort and 2) univariate HR of 0.14 (95% CI:0.03-0.59, p=0.0076) to three years. Functional analysis on the cisplatin profile revealed a group of upregulated genes related to RNA splicing as a part of DNA damage repair and apoptosis. Conclusions: Profiles derived from snap-frozen and FFPE NSCLC tissue were prognostic and predictive in the patients that received cisplatin and vinorelbine but not in the cohort that did not receive adjuvant treatment.

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